diff --git a/plugins/nf-azure/changelog.txt b/plugins/nf-azure/changelog.txt
index cb50288fd9..3fba12494f 100644
--- a/plugins/nf-azure/changelog.txt
+++ b/plugins/nf-azure/changelog.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 nf-azure changelog
 ===================
-1.6.1 - 1 Aug 2024
-- Update Azure batch deps [72576648]
-- Bump pf4j to version 3.12.0 [1a8f086a]
+1.8.1 - 5 Aug 2024
+- Bump pf4j to version 3.12.0 [96117b9a]
 
 1.8.0 - 8 Jul 2024
 - Update Azure VMs and regions for 2024-07-01 (#5100) [12b027ee]
@@ -16,6 +15,10 @@ nf-azure changelog
 - Bump azure-compute-batch:1.0.0-beta.2 [c08dc49b]
 - Bump azure-storage-blob 12.26.1 [c76ff5e7]
 
+1.6.1 - 1 Aug 2024
+- Update Azure batch deps [72576648]
+- Bump pf4j to version 3.12.0 [1a8f086a]
+
 1.6.0 - 15 Apr 2024
 - Add support for Azure custom startTask (#4913) [27d01e3a]
 - Improve control on azcopy install (#4883) [01447d5c]
diff --git a/plugins/nf-azure/src/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/plugins/nf-azure/src/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index a53e199734..939940fc14 100644
--- a/plugins/nf-azure/src/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/plugins/nf-azure/src/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Manifest-Version: 1.0
 Plugin-Class: nextflow.cloud.azure.AzurePlugin
 Plugin-Id: nf-azure
-Plugin-Version: 1.8.0
+Plugin-Version: 1.8.1
 Plugin-Provider: Seqera Labs
-Plugin-Requires: >=24.01.0-edge
+Plugin-Requires: >=24.04.4